ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,351, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Planetary pinion gear deflection restraint device" was invented by Matthew Michael Wilcox (Fort Worth, Texas), Eric S. Olson (Fort Worth, Texas) and Trenton Allen Hamm (Cleburne, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a rotorcraft including a rotor system and a transmission system for providing rotational power to the rotor system, the transmission system comprising a housing and a planetary pinion gear disposed in the housing. The rotorcraft further includes a restraint assembly associated with the planetary pinion gear, the restrai...